How to improve writing skills?
Posted on July 19, 2007
Filed Under English skills
Easy: write daily.
Here is a bit longer advice.
Use every chance to write, for example:
- Emails — at work and personal
- Posts on internet forums, boards and blogs
- Your own blog
Aim at writing half a page texts — this should save your efforts (not necessary to start writing a long novel!) and make you concentrate on the subject matter.
Proof-read your text at least twice after it’s written:
- First time — straight away. I recommend to print your text out or at least copy and paste it into another text editor, ideally with a different font setting. This will help you notice issues much easier.
- Next time — at least in a half an hour. Most probably, you will notice more issues.
It’s always a good idea to use spell-checker. By the way, Firefox has integrated spell-checker available for all text fields. Make sure you take advantage of it when writing on the web.
Do not trust spell-checker completely. Remember that there are grammatical errors and misspellings resulting into correct individual words that may make you look stupid. Common relatively harmless examples are “its”-”it’s” and “then”-”than”.
And also read more to learn from other authors’ writing. Keep in mind that bloggers are not alway professional copywriters and may not necessary serve as a best example. Instead take a look at edited resources like newspapers’ web sites. While reading, pay attention to apt turns of phrases and don’t hesitate to check questionable words in a dictionary.
Following these hints day by day will help you constantly improve your writing and make your both written and spoken language clearer and more influential.
Good like with your writing!
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Yes, and when not writing, read good writing by someone else. Just as long as it doesn’t become a joyless slog of “practice, practice, practice.” Learn and enjoy the learning process.
Hi Kelly Cat, thanks for you comment!
Yes, good point — the joy of writing and learning is essential.
Hi,
Its always good practice to write anyone. we could chose any simple topic, say for example “dogs”,”cats” “water”.etc…Beginners can try this..and ofcourse,practice,practice,practice always the good idea..
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